Nightwalker takes you on a journey through time and darkness. A project by Belgian painters Reniere&Depla, artists in residence at the In Flanders Fields Museum.

In June 1917 the British composer and war poet Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was taking rest with his regiment behind the lines in the northern French village of Buire-au-Bois. There, on a country road and more than a century after the Great War, artists Reniere&Depla encountered Gurney in thought. The soldier and the artists found each other in their nightwalks under the immense starry sky that has not changed in all those years.
The result is a visual interpretation of time and remembrance, inspired by their research and by the gripping war images Reniere&Depla found in the Museum's archives.
This installation, entitled Nightwalker, is not a reconstruction of Gurney's wanderings but an evocation of how the night affects mind and body. We are confronted with all the shades of darkness, from dusk till dawn at the break of day, from serene anticipation to the threat of catastrophe. Reniere&Depla have chosen the panorama approach to present Nightwalker, a time-honoured, encompassing way of seeing that suggests infinity. Yet each panel in this frieze of 45 images stands on its own, as a snapshot of the night that embraces, conceals and reveals, comforts and bewilders.

In Flanders Fields Museum, 5 July 2025 to 4 January 2026.